Still, they taste a bit of blood

Soul of a grumpy uncle, body of a thirty-something Canadian. Current grad student. Future lighthouse keeper.

[samlickereightyone]

when the media has homophobia that has aged into genuine queer subtext

[probuccalfat]

i cannot emphasize enough how important it is that you should ideally give birth in a fully equipped and staffed medical facility or if you insist on giving birth through an alternative method you should be within minutes of a hospital and i mean under 5 minutes if you’d like me to be really fucking frank

[probuccalfat]

like i can get on board with so much feminist theory and stuff, truly, and i do acknowledge that obstetrics and gynaecology as a field holds blind spots that are egregious (e.g. infant and maternal mortality in the black community) but there is no empowerment in risky birthing practices that our foremothers, and i’m not mincing words, often suffered through. birthing is natural, but it is not “easy” or even “innate”, it is best practiced guided and witnessed by those that know what to do in an emergency. you are not reconnecting to any innate feminine nature by practicing dangerous birthing practices—you are recreating a time when the bodies and lives of women barely mattered and it was expected that death would/could occur at insane and tragic rates.

[probuccalfat]

this is a hill i will spend the rest of my days fighting on because while i am not interested in birthing children myself, i have an incredible passion and interest in the field of labour and delivery. it’s been one of my greatest joys to play even a small part in delivering neonates. i do not want anyone to risk their babies over a deeply, deeply misguided idea of free birth being “the natural way” when natural is not always synonymous with the safest way.

[anarchohellenism]

So many people think it's either midwife or doctor. It's not. Have your midwife or doula in the hospital room with you, I promise the doctors don't give a shit. Hell, you can have her do the delivery itself and just have the doctors there as emergency backup! But for the love of your baby, go to the fucking hospital.

[probuccalfat]

yup. a lot of hospitals are willing to work with you to realize your birthing plan as much as they can within safe limits and parameters. my hospital is closely and highly allied with midwives all up and down the coast, with the explicit instruction to call the midwife when we know a labouring patient is about to deliver so we can respect their plan. genuinely, you can have almost any kind of birth you want—just make sure that there are qualified professionals in attendance, and it’s not just midwives or OBGYNS you need. you have no idea when you’ll need a respiratory therapist on call, you have no idea when you will need a blood transfusion within minutes or risk certain death, L&D nurses do not have the same training as NICU nurses if a baby declines rapidly. it’s a literal thousand things that can go wrong and you should be in the best place for them to go wrong.

[beefcakekinard]

found at the bottom of buck's closet as he's packing up the loft: an old, worn-soft tank top.

pushed to the back of a drawer until out of sight is out of mind: a pair of grey sweats. the cuffs drag along the floor when tommy tries to wear them.

lost and forgotten among stacks of cardboard boxes: a pair of plain black socks. found again, washed, folded together, and set aside.

wadded up into a damp ball in the pocket of buck's dress slacks: a simple white pocket square, older than buck's own.

stolen from buck's closet, stolen back, stolen again, stolen back, stolen again: a fluffy pink cardigan.

tossed together in a box and donated: half a closet's worth of henleys, tees, and hoodies.

set on one of a matching set of nightstands:

a pair of drugstore reading glasses.

a dog-eared copy of master and commander.

a wooden bowl holding a watch, a silver bracelet, and one of two golden bands.

[halles-comet]

my favorite thing about louis is he's a business major in a world of theater kids. everyone's playing psychological games with each other through theater and rock music and the fractured art of storytelling and he's like "but what are the margins on my vampire hotel"

[tarmairons]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022-) | S03E01

[toskarin]

tumblr has a tendency to develop what I'd call powderkeg interests, where someone who does know what something entails says they like it, and then the bullet point explanation of it picks up steam as something everyone likes despite the fact they'd be scandalised if they had a full understanding of the topic, because they just haven't thought it through to conclusion yet

cowboys and knights are the classic ones, but I submit landsknecht as another disaster waiting to happen

[twirlingfreckles]

Like I know I’d feels awkward to write but when I’m reading a fic I don’t notice if an author is using the characters names too many times too close together. That’s their name! on the other hand if I ever have to read “the blond” I’m closing the tab. The only time it’s ever acceptable to use epithets like that is when the characters don’t know each others names yet

[emberphoenixisgoingtolivee]

oh, i'll just go to the library for one book, and that's IT. just one. like this book here! that looks very interesting. i will take out this b- oh, but this book, now this looks very good too. ... it's unfair of me to choose :( i will just take them both, i can always renew them. now time for me to go and study- oh! what's this? oooh what an enticing blurb! i like this book too. my darling you shall go on the pile. everyone belongs. i can always renew them. and while i'm here.. ... i was looking for a book about- yes! this book! this is perfect! ohh i am so glad im not dead. now i have so many wonderful books. this is plenty :) i don't need anym- oh! look! another book... ... ........ .. . i can always renew them......

[lakecountylibrary]

#and the librarians are like “why not six more?” and i think that's very based of them (OP's very correct tag)

[lakecountylibrary]

#the librarians don't mind when you take many books?#I'm always a touch worried when I go to the counter with yet another stack of books that reaches my chin (tags from @lotus-ignis)

I know you're not the only one wondering this so: Nope! We don't mind! High circ stats - aka, people checking out things - is how we prove we're useful and worthy of funding.

Anyway, if we did want to slow folks down, libraries are very capable of setting a limit on the number of books people can check out at one time (ours is 50). Most modern systems will automatically stop you if you try to check out over the limit, so if that hasn't happened? Keep going. You can do it. We believe in you. (Don't worry about getting judged if you hit the limit, either. If that happens while a librarian is helping you, they will simply let you know with a knowing nod. Who among us has not been there...)

[hesitantlyhappy]

iwtv seasons one and two was like being tucked into bed and read a heartbreaking story by Louis du pointe du lac. The Vampire Lestat is like your blackout drunk uncle trying to tell you an anecdote at a family gathering

[carnadelions]

what iwtv the show has done well is deduce how much of louis’s first interview is really just an attempt to exorcize or consolidate his attraction to lestat, primarily through emasculation. in both the book and the show louis does this by opining how feeble and incapable lestat is, which clashes with how fearful and reverent louis becomes at the sound of lestat’s footsteps, how offhandedly he rhapsodies about his strength or clings to him in moments of peril. but i think hands down the funniest and most flagrant example of this is when book louis is like “and then i saw armand’s masculine face, more masculine than i’d ever seen lestat’s” and then you keep reading and find out armand looks like castrato ariana grande

[carnadelions]

[thisisnotenuff]

the best thing about shane hollander is that hes literally cool. here's this guy who is fuckoff good at hockey like once in a generation talent (twice though because ilya is there <3) and he doesnt really drink he definitely doesnt party hes pretty soft spoken and keeps to himself (but they made him captain anyway. hes just that good) and is usually pretty stoic from an outside perspective and he can rattle off hockey facts and stats like hes got every wikipedia page memorized. AND hes fucking gorgeous. if he wasnt being tortured by being gay and having undiagnosed ocd and autism this shit would be nothing to him man

[shanehollandergirl]

wilt thou retreat with me to mine cottage this solstice? do not away to russia. come to my dwelling. we shall divert ourselves so greatly, and without fear of others' judgment. no one shalt know. we might have a week or even a fortnight...

[random-brushstrokes]

Thorvald Erichsen - Wooded Landscape (1900)

[anarqueeen]

Turning the cuck chair around backwards to show I'm not like your other, boring cuckolds

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

*youth pastor voice* you know who else got nailed while all his friends watched? that's right,

[larkandkatydid]

The thing about people talking about how much they hate children is that I've never seen any correlation between "openly expressed loathing of children" and "support for policies that actively harm children."

In contrast, when people go out of their way to tell you how much they love children and want to protect children, it's at least a 50/50 chance that you are about to hear support for the most actively evil assault on children's rights and dignity that you can possibly imagine.

[larkandkatydid]

Sarah Huckabee Sanders has built an entire political persona on being a "mama bear" who protects innocent children from groomers and also she has changed the law so that immigrant children are literally risking life and limb to working slaughterhouses instead of going to school. It is an example so cartoonish you'd think I'd made it up! But these are not unrelated political positions! A suffocating vVctorian cosseting for white me and a Dickensian drudgery for black and brown thee!

[acecroft]

it's so unfortunate that people with stupid takes are allowed to watch my favorite media

[hollanov-words]

One thing that's really interesting about Shane is that his internalized homophobia and shame is less about a sense that his sexuality is inherently wrong, and more about a sense that it is a violation of normative behavior within hockey and a risk to his own hockey career.

In Shane's mind, people are allowed to be gay. Hockey players are not.

Shane Hollander is a hockey player, and therefore is not allowed to be gay.

Later on, after coming out to his team, I think that manifests in two conflicting beliefs - that his sexuality is valid and that his team is valid for treating him poorly for it. Because in Shane's mind, he's committed a kind of bro code violation by being gay.